Porcelain serves forever and keep extra pieces in the attic or crawl space.

Look at making extra income through your career or a side hustle.

A little bit about me:- Just finished reading "Retire Early with Real Estate"- Currently reading "The House Hacking Strategy" by Craig Curelop- Passionate about and pursuing financial independence through index-fund investing but on a journey to accelerate it through real estate investing- Born and raised in Montgomery County, Maryland but currently living in Fairfax/Northern VirginiaCurrent housing situation:- Rent-hacking an apartment unit my gf and friend- Looking to purchase my first property in the DMV area before/around next April, rent extra rooms to help offset or pay the mortgage, build up capital for the next house-hack, and repeat the process for the next couple of yearsHoping to connect with and learn more from you all/BiggerPockets in general as I get started on my journey!

Another tip is I would recommend paying an extra $100 or $200 on top of their market rent if you need to.

Ones that will go the extra length to take a look at roof, ext. 

(We've never done a capital call with our investors and never want to.)When we have substantial rehabs for REOs, we might get a hard money loan to provide the extra capital.Future plans include getting warehouse and lines of credit with banks to help with liquidity as well.

Doesn’t seem like a great return however we sleep easier with the lead certificates and from my experience, as an team lead of 26 investor focused agents doing over 100 multi-family transactions through YTD 2021, the certificates are worth an extra $5-10k per unit when you sell the property.

Long story short they had some debt tied to the property, we were able to pay that off for them, plus a small extra for them.

I actually found an ozone air cleaner at goodwill, and I use it for a few hours in a bedroom after an airbnb guest leave and it leaves the room having that extra clean smell.

It may not be a lot but that is something you can control and if you really want to make it go faster consider renting by the room or even renting extra rooms in the unit you will life in.